Motivational profiles and their relationship with responsibility, school social climate and resilience in high school students

David Manzano-Sánchez, Alberto Gómez-Marmol, José Francisco Jiménez-Parra, Isabel Gil Bohórquez and Alfonso Valero-Valenzuela

PLOS ONE, 2021, vol. 16, issue 8, 1-13

Abstract: The aim of this study was to assess the relationships among motivational profiles, their responsibility levels, the school social climate and resilience, and the differences according to gender and age of students from different secondary schools in Spain. A sample of 768 students (mean age of 13.84 years), 314 boys (46.1%) and 354 girls (53.9%) was used. The measurements taken concerned: personal and social responsibility, basic psychological need satisfaction, motivation, resilience and school social climate. Bivariate correlation, cluster and multivariate analyses were carried out. The cluster analysis was made using the Motivation toward Education Scale with its different variables (intrinsic, identified, introjected, external motivation and amotivation), revealing four profiles: low quality (1, low values in all motivational variables except in amotivation), low quantity (2, low values), high quantity (3, high values), and high quality (4, high values except in amotivation). The contrast in comparisons shows differences in resilience, personal and social responsibility, teacher climate and school climate (p

Date: 2021
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